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Mac and I sat on the bed at the end of a 7 day training camp in Mallorca. We discuss how you can improve your performance on a bike by measuring your efforts - firstly just with heart rate analysis, then with the aid of a powermeter. It starts as a novice guide and evolves into helping the more experienced bike athlete. 

Mac has been a coach at TrainSharp for years and has helped me as my coach for numerous recent seasons. 

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Greg Sendell, I've known for years, but I never really understood the journey he was on attempting to conquer the UTMB, the 172 km (with 10,000 of altitude gain) non stop lap of Mt Blanc in Chamonix. He took the time to chat with me piecing together the mission it was to prepare his body and mind for such a massive event. 

He covers training, preparation events, alternate exercise in the build up, how he became vegan in the process, how he uses the chiro to help keep him balanced, mental preparation and how he fits it in with family commitments. 

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Lovely to chat with @dr.amichiro two years after she was our first guest on @chirolondonpod Ami is a chiropractor who loves helping your whole family. 

Since we first had her on, she has become an @instagram chiro star on the account she grew from scratch - mainly as a way of keeping in touch with her tribe during a pandemic. 

Listen in for ideas for your own social media accounts. Secondly we walk through what happens when you see her as a patient at @putneychiropractic if you are pregnant, if it’s for your newborn or baby or for any member of your family. 

We finish off the chat talking #pgp #pelvicgirdlepain - babies with flats heads or #plagiocephaly and co management with #physiotherapy 

Don’t forget to sign up to her #webinar this week - details in her bio @dr.amichiro 

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Martine Beswick starred in both the 1963 Bond: From Russia With Love and the 1965 Bond: Thunderball. I'm happy to say she is still a Bond fan and she has quite some insight into life when the Bond franchise was hitting it's peak. Enjoy our chat, we cover Bond movies, her Hammer movies (she was a scream queen also) and how she has kept so healthy and well into her now 80s, although she lived the full on life through the 1960s. 

We then change pace and discuss how she has kept so healthy into her 80s, what are her secrets to ageing gracefully?

Thanks Martine. 

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I first met Amin Momen of Momentum ski around 15 years ago, brought together by my love for skiing and his cool event the city ski championships. Amin moved his business to Putney only months before the lockdowns and travel bans started, it was a tough time for him and his business and he talks us through how he coped - diversifying, doing lockdown DJ sessions online on a Friday night, giving up half his new office space to create a really successful cafe in Putney, setting up local events, etc...

He also began a new podcast bringing his extensive list of celebrity contacts together to talk about their skiing and music passions.

We talk about how chiro has helped him over the years, how we provided chiro support for three City Ski racing events back in the day and how we should get back on it for his 2022 event in Switzerland.

We end things off with some travel tips for the future. 

Find Momentum Travel here his Off Piste Podcast here 

Thanks Amin. 

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Grow old. Get fast. Don't die.

In Phil's words, the Midlife Cyclist's author, these three things encapsulates exactly what the book is about. We are living as the first generation of human beings who have exercised heavily after the age of 40. The book looks into the effect of exercise on our heart, hormones and musculoskeletal system.

We evolve some ideas of how to stay healthy and injury free after the age of 40. This book contains some great do's and don'ts  for the cyclist both those starting out after being exercise silent and plenty for the hard core lifetime cyclist.

We are joined by the books biggest fan, Guy Pearson of Pearson cycles fame. He is currently injured and having had the longest time off the bike he can ever remember, reading this book has helped him put many things into perspective.

For those that don't know me, Craig McLean, I'm not only a chiropractor but a nearly 50 year old amateur racing cyclist who's been riding with team 'Nuun Sigma Sports' for nearly a decade. Another midlife cyclist who still regularly competes with the upcoming future GB stars of cycling, both on the velodrome and road. 

I hope you enjoy the chat recorded in Cyclefit HQ Covent Garden.

You can buy the book directly here https://shop.cyclefit.co.uk/collections/the-midlife-cyclist/products/the-midlife-cyclist

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We had a chat to Tom MacKay in episode 56 about marathon preparation and what you have to do to aim for a sub 2:30 marathon time. 8 days ago he ran the London marathon and we hear how his race went. Did he manage to achieve his target, how did he perform on the day, what is next in the future. Enjoy

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Thanks Tom for taking the time to share your thoughts and words about your journey with endurance and marathon running. Well done on the 1:10 London 'Big Half' half marathon and good luck with your quest of a sub 2:30 marathon at the delayed October London Marathon. 

We cover running, training, pacing, preparation and kit (especially shoes). Tom's a regular on the chiro table - he shares his views on chiro and how it's helped him over the years. He also shares his views on yoga and stretching - as someone who is fairly inflexible he opens up to me about his frustrations with yoga and how he found his thing. 

Finishing off with some insight into pro tennis from his summer job looking after the seeded tennis pro's at the Wimbledon Championships. Lastly a cool story about Bruce Springsteen. Enjoy. 

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Meet Wilf, 27 years old who's back pain it turned out was the result of Hodgkins lymphoma. A journey that took over a year to diagnose, including a visit to me at Putney Chiro. We walk through his journey including 12 weeks of intensive chemotherapy, hair falling out and concerns he may never make it through. I spoke to him in July 2021 and his chemo started January 2021. Thanks Wilf for sharing your story and congratulation on beating the darkness.

A great episode for chiropractors as we talk about all the red flags that eventually were there and a good reminder for us all, that sometimes it's not neuro or mechanical.

Also if you are not a chiro, this is simply an uplifting story of beating cancer.

Chiro London Insta account showing his PET CT scan before and after results as discussed 

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Profeet and Chiro London have had a 20 year relationship, back to  when they opened in 2001. In this episode we meet Profeet's founder Shula who gives us some background into how and when she and her late husband Hamish started the business. Then I head over to the store in Fulham, SW London, UK and do an in-shop interview with Tom their lead running tech. We cover basic problems that can go wrong with the foot, knee and whole body biomechanics, what you can do about it at home and why a running analysis and/or a full 3D body biomechanics check up is a good idea. We hope you enjoy this podcast which is all about running, skiing and other sports.  After this you will never buy an online trainer again.

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